0one's Blueprints Backdrops: The Golden Eel Inn

Located on a prime spot facing the harbor prominently rests the Dock Ward’s most celebrated and most expensive inn, The Golden Eel.

Golden Eel caters to the pleasure of the port’s wealthier clientele, particularly traveling merchants and rich nobles who come to sample its exquisite cuisine. It is also a favored spot of higher-ups within the local navy, who often rent its private conference room to discuss strategies over a fine cooked meal and imported brandy.

For several generations now, the inn has been owned and operated by the Kval family. Immigrants from a neighboring land, they bought the establishment from the local navy and converted it from rundown barracks into a glorious inn. The current owner is Marcoso Kval.

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Welcome to Blueprints Backdrops!This new set of products is based on Øone’s popular Blueprints. In Blueprints Backdrops, you will find a fully developed version of one of the locations from the Blueprints line. The Backdrop features a complete description of the location, and its NPCs and monsters (if any), penned by one of our talented writers, and portrayed by skillful artists. You also get a simpler version of the map found in Blueprints and a complete detailed 3D map of the location. The 3D view will help you to visualize the area and better describe it to your players. You can even show it to them, if you wish.

The product is suitable for use with any fantasy RPG system. We have separated the d20 stats from the main text, allowing you to print out either a generic description or a fully d20-statted version.

But the good stuff is just beginning.

This product takes full advantage of PDF technology, joining old-fashioned style with the most advanced electronic features.

This button lets you choose which level to play, and all the relevant text will change accordingly: monsters will scale, DCs and traps will change, behaviors of the villains will change, all according to the level of play you choose.

Note: The original map of the Golden Eel Inn appears inØone’s Blueprints: The Great City, Dock Ward

This 16 page pdf offers two very small, poorly designed blueprints and one isometric rendition. The rest of the pdf is full of generic adventure seeds, location description and just filler content. 3 pages are unreadable. For four bucks, I feel like [...]

Being a big fan of all 0one's maps, I downloaded this as soon as I could. Basically, the maps are not much more than what you get if you purchased the Great City - Dock Ward set. However, this PDF contains information about the owner of the Inn and [...]

An RPG Resource Review: This is the opening product in a new line, designed to meld 0one Games's map designs and mastery of PDF technology with descriptions of the locations depicted populated by well-rounded NPCs... who as a bonus are provided in [...]

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